Thursday, 5 November 2009

Yesterday Tory leader David Cameron ditched the doable, credible, deliverable referendum on UK membership in the European Union, the undoable referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the plebiscites he described as made-up and phoney.

If the Conservative Party forms the next government, it will be introduce national legislation to prevent the emergence of a democratic European Union. The government will initiate negotiations to repatriate EU powers, real or imaginary, to Britain. The government is in no haste, asking to be judged at the end of the next parliamentary term, i.e. five years.

After David Cameron’s speech, the anti-EU crowd has no hope of withdrawal through the Conservative Party. The United Kingdom has no intention of leaving the European Union, and Cameron has left the secessionists simmering on the back burner.

The member states and the citizens of the European Union are saddled with the prospects of continued British membership.

Letters to The Telegraph reveal that many readers want a referendum on Britain’s relationship with Europe; under the headline No referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is possible, but the people demand a vote on rule from Brussels (5 November 2009).

The Independent’s leading article Fork-tongued Tories (5 November 2009) says that Cameron risks taking his party’s corrosive division over Europe into government – not just through the next Parliament, but beyond.

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Cameron must have calculated that a 20-point lead in the polls is enough to win the general election, despite the improved prospects for UKIP and the BNP.

Some of the promises can be enacted domestically and the ones requiring unanimous EU agreement can drag on for five years of “patient” negotiations.

Ralf Grahn

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